1982 Portuguese local elections explained

Election Name:	1982 Portuguese local elections
Country:	Portugal
Type:	parliamentary
Previous Election:	1979 Portuguese local elections
Previous Year:	1979
Next Election:	1985 Portuguese local elections
Next Year:	1985
Seats For Election:	All 305 Portuguese municipalities and 4,260 Portuguese Parishes All 1,909 local government councils
Election Date:	12 December 1982
Turnout:	71.1% 0.6 pp
1Blank:	Mayors
2Blank:	Mayors +/–
3Blank:	Councillors
4Blank:	Councillors +/–
Colour1:	2A52BE
Leader1:	Francisco Pinto Balsemão
Party1:	PSD
Alliance1:	AD
Last Election1:	195 mayors, 47.5%
Popular Vote1:	2,117,647^[1]
Percentage1:	42.7%
Swing1:	4.8 pp
1Data1:	165^[2]
2Data1:	30
3Data1:	953^[3]
4Data1:	110
Leader2:	Mário Soares
Party2:	Socialist Party (Portugal)
Last Election2:	60 mayors, 28.3%
Popular Vote2:	1,578,915^[4]
Percentage2:	31.8%
Swing2:	3.5 pp
1Data2:	84^[5]
2Data2:	24
3Data2:	630^[6]
4Data2:	114
Colour3:	ff0000
Leader3:	Álvaro Cunhal
Party3:	PCP
Alliance3:	APU
Last Election3:	50 mayors, 19.9%
Popular Vote3:	1,038,033
Percentage3:	20.9%
Swing3:	1.0 pp
1Data3:	55
2Data3:	5
3Data3:	316
4Data3:	0

Local elections were held in Portugal on 12 December 1982. They were the third local elections in Portugal since the democratic revolution of 1974 introduced the concept of democratic local power.

The elections consisted of three separate elections in the 305 Portuguese municipalities that existed at the time, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is automatically elected mayor, similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP), another election for the Municipal Assembly and a last one for the lower-level Parish Assembly, whose winner is elected parish president, this last was held separately in the more than 4,000 parishes around the country.

The Socialist Party finished once more on the top of the results table, increasing its share by 4 points, however that was because the coalition between the two major right-wing parties, the Democratic and Social Center and the Social Democratic Party, the Democratic Alliance, did not participate in all Municipalities and Parishes, being the parties which composed it, separated in many Municipalities. This right wing coalition did, however, lose some voting in relation to the previous election.

The left-wing United People Alliance dominated the election in the municipalities of the South of the country, gathering more than 60 percent of the votes and achieving its best result ever with 20.7 percent and 55 mayors.

Despite the victory of the Democratic Alliance, the then PSD leader and Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemão considered the results a disappointment, citting divisions with his own party and the alliance, and resigned from both posts.^[7] This decision led to a snap general election in April 1983.

Parties

The main political forces involved in the election were:

• Democratic Alliance (AD) (only in some municipalities)
• Democratic and Social Center (CDS) (only in some municipalities)
• Socialist Party (PS)
• Social Democratic Party (PSD) (only in some municipalities)
• United People Alliance (APU)

Results

Municipal Councils

National summary of votes and seats

|-! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Candidacies! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Councillors! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Mayors|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±|-| |align=right| 1,547,664|align=right| 31.18|align=right|2.9|align=right| |align=right| 619|align=right|103|align=right| 83|align=right|23|- | |align=right| 1,038,033 |align=right| 20.91|align=right|1.0|align=right||align=right| 316|align=right| 0|align=right| 55|align=right|5|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#2A52BE align="center" | |align=left|Democratic Alliance|align=right| 988,347|align=right| 19.91|align=right|3.6|align=right||align=right| 322|align=right|104|align=right| 49|align=right|24|-| |align=right| 745,048 |align=right| 15.01|align=right|1.3|align=right||align=right| 439|align=right|36|align=right| 88|align=right|13|-| |align=right| 369,263 |align=right| 7.44|align=right|0.1|align=right| |align=right| 185|align=right|29|align=right| 27|align=right|7|- |style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#E2062C align="center" | |align=left|People's Democratic Union|align=right| 31,567 |align=right| 0.64|align=right|0.6|align=right| |align=right| 3 |align=right|0|align=right| 0|align=right|0|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" | |align=left|Socialist / UEDS|align=right| 31,251|align=right| 0.63|align=right|—|align=right| |align=right| 11|align=right|—|align=right| 1|align=right|—|-| |align=right| 15,315 |align=right| 0.31|align=right|0.1|align=right||align=right| 0|align=right|0|align=right| 0|align=right|0|-| |align=right| 11,149 |align=right| 0.22|align=right|0.1|align=right||align=right| 5 |align=right|1|align=right| 1|align=right|0|-| |align=right| 5,684|align=right| 0.11|align=right|0.1|align=right| |align=right| 0|align=right|0|align=right| 0|align=right|0|-| |align=right| 4,236 |align=right| 0.09|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| 7|align=right| —|align=right| 1|align=right|—|-| |align=right| 3,840 |align=right| 0.08|align=right| —|align=right||align=right| 2|align=right|—|align=right| 0|align=right|—|-| |align=right| 1,388|align=right| 0.03|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| 0 |align=right|—|align=right| 0|align=right|—|-| |align=right| 855 |align=right| 0.02|align=right|0.2|align=right| |align=right| 0|align=right|0|align=right| 0|align=right|0|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,785,586|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.40|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.2|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1,909|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|9|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|305|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|87,381||1.76||0.8||colspan=6 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|91,403||1.84||0.4|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,964,370|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||6,987,106||71.05||0.7|}

City control

The following table lists party control in all district capitals, as well as in municipalities above 100,000 inhabitants. Population estimates from the 1981 Census.^[8]

Municipality	Population	Previous control		New control
Almada	147,690		United People Alliance (APU)		United People Alliance (APU)
Amadora	163,878		United People Alliance (APU)		United People Alliance (APU)
Aveiro	60,284		Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)		Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)
Barcelos	103,773		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Beja	38,246		United People Alliance (APU)		United People Alliance (APU)
Braga	125,472		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Bragança	35,380		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)
Cascais	141,498		Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Castelo Branco	54,908		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Democratic Alliance (AD)
Coimbra	138,930		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Socialist Party (PS)
Évora	51,572		United People Alliance (APU)		United People Alliance (APU)
Faro	45,109		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Democratic Alliance (AD)
Funchal	112,746		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Gondomar	130,751		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Socialist Party (PS)
Guarda	40,360		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Guimarães	146,959		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Socialist Party (PS)
Leiria	96,517		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)
Lisbon	807,937		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Democratic Alliance (AD)
Loures	276,467		United People Alliance (APU)		United People Alliance (APU)
Matosinhos	136,498		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Oeiras	149,328		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Democratic Alliance (AD)
Ponta Delgada	63,804		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)
Portalegre	27,313		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Socialist Party (PS)
Porto	327,368		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Democratic Alliance (AD)
Santarém	62,896		Socialist Party (PS)		Socialist Party (PS)
Santa Maria da Feira	109,531		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Democratic Alliance (AD)
Setúbal	98,366		United People Alliance (APU)		United People Alliance (APU)
Sintra	226,428		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Democratic Alliance (AD)
Viana do Castelo	81,009		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Democratic Alliance (AD)
Vila Nova de Famalicão	106,508		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Socialist Party (PS)
Vila Nova de Gaia	226,331		Democratic Alliance (AD)		Socialist Party (PS)
Vila Real	47,020		Social Democratic Party (PSD)		Democratic Alliance (AD)
Viseu	83,261		Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)		Social Democratic Party (PSD)

Municipal Assemblies

National summary of votes and seats

|-! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Candidacies! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Mandates|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±|-| |align=right| 1,583,804 |align=right| 31.23|align=right|3.3|align=right||align=right| 3,182|align=right|496|- | |align=right| 1,070,247 |align=right| 21.10|align=right|0.6|align=right| |align=right| 1,763|align=right|17|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#2A52BE align="center" | |align=left|Democratic Alliance|align=right| 990,315|align=right| 19.53|align=right|4.1|align=right| |align=right| 1,625 |align=right|497|-| |align=right| 717,131|align=right| 14.14|align=right|2.6|align=right| |align=right| 2,148|align=right|82|-| |align=right| 379,833|align=right| 7.49|align=right|0.6|align=right| |align=right| 1,003|align=right|171|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#E2062C align="center" | |align=left|People's Democratic Union|align=right| 35,128 |align=right| 0.70|align=right|0.6|align=right| |align=right| 21|align=right|37|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" | |align=left|Socialist / UEDS|align=right| 31,481 |align=right| 0.63|align=right|0.6|align=right| |align=right| 52|align=right|—|-| |align=right| 30,707 |align=right| 0.61|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| 40|align=right| —|-| |align=right| 10,314 |align=right| 0.21|align=right|0.1|align=right||align=right| 28|align=right|2|-| |align=right| 7,120 |align=right| 0.14|align=right|0.1|align=right| |align=right| 1|align=right|1|-| |align=right| 3,858 |align=right| 0.08|align=right| —|align=right||align=right| 32|align=right| —|-| |align=right| 2,499|align=right| 0.05|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| 0|align=right| — |-| |align=right| 847|align=right| 0.02|align=right| 0.0|align=right||align=right| 2|align=right| 2|-| |align=right| 526|align=right| 0.01|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| 0|align=right| —|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,865,027|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|95.93|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|1.4|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|9,897|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|194|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|115,352||2.27||1.0||colspan=6 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|91,128||1.80||0.4|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|5,071,507|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||7,114,983||71.28||0.6|}

Parish Assemblies

National summary of votes and seats

|-! rowspan="2" colspan=2 style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left|Parties! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|%! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|±pp swing! rowspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Candidacies! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Mandates! colspan="2" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Presidents|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9"! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|Total! style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align="center"|±|- | |align=right| 1,527,322 |align=right| 31.03|align=right| 3.2|align=right| |align=right| 12,803|align=right| 2,190|align=right||align=right||-| |align=right| 1,071,831 |align=right| 21.76|align=right| 1.3|align=right||align=right| 4,997|align=right|265|align=right||align=right| |-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#2A52BE align="center" | |align=left|Democratic Alliance|align=right| 905,696 |align=right| 18.40|align=right| 4.4|align=right| |align=right| 7,684|align=right| 2,101|align=right||align=right||-| |align=right| 760,847 |align=right| 15.46|align=right| 1.3|align=right||align=right| 9,499 |align=right|52|align=right| |align=right||-| |align=right| 381,150 |align=right| 7.74|align=right| 0.7|align=right| |align=right| 4,837|align=right|176|align=right||align=right||-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=gray align="center" ||align=left|Independents|align=right| 65,865|align=right| 1.34|align=right| 0.2|align=right| |align=right| 1,038|align=right|331|align=right||align=right| |-| |align=right| 29,284|align=right| 0.59|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| 342|align=right| —|align=right||align=right| —|-|style="width: 9px" bgcolor=#FF66FF align="center" | |align=left|Socialist / UEDS|align=right| 25,265 |align=right| 0.51|align=right| —|align=right||align=right| 258|align=right| —|align=right||align=right| —|-|style="width: 10px" bgcolor=#E2062C align="center" | |align=left|People's Democratic Union|align=right| 24,799|align=right| 0.50|align=right|0.4|align=right||align=right| 30|align=right|25|align=right||align=right||-| |align=right| 6,261 |align=right| 0.13|align=right|0.0|align=right| |align=right| 99 |align=right|21|align=right||align=right||-| |align=right| 5,023 |align=right| 0.10|align=right|0.0|align=right| |align=right| 0|align=right|3|align=right||align=right| |-| |align=right| 2,768|align=right| 0.06|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| 49|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| —|-| |align=right| 856|align=right| 0.02|align=right|0.0|align=right| |align=right| 0 |align=right|1|align=right||align=right| |-| |align=right| 482|align=right| 0.00|align=right| 0.1|align=right| |align=right| 0 |align=right| 26|align=right| |align=right| |-| |align=right| 444 |align=right| 0.00|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| 0|align=right| —|align=right| |align=right| —|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total valid|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,738,913|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|96.28|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|0.9|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|41,636|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—|width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="45" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|—|-|colspan=2|Blank ballots|87,935||1.79||0.5||colspan=6 rowspan=4||-|colspan=2|Invalid ballots|95,380||1.94||0.4|-|colspan=2 align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total|width="65" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|4,922,228|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|100.00|width="40" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"||-|colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||7,073,336||69.59||1.1|}

Maps

Notes

• The source of the voting data is the Portuguese Electoral Commission

Further Notes:

• Democratic Alliance (AD) was composed by the Democratic Social Center (CDS), the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the People's Monarchist Party (PPM).
• Although the PSD, the CDS and the PPM were united in the Democratic Alliance, they appear in the scorecard because they ran separated in several municipalities.
• The Democratic Union (UD) was composed only by the Democratic Social Center (CDS) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD)
• United People Alliance (APU) was composed by the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) and the Portuguese Democratic Movement (MDP/CDE).
• The number of candidacies expresses the number of municipalities or parishes in which the party or coalition presented lists.
• The number of mandates expresses the number of municipal deputies in the Municipal Assembly election and the number of parish deputies in the Parish Assembly election.
• The turnout varies because one may choose not to vote for all the organs.

See also

• Politics of Portugal
• List of political parties in Portugal
• Elections in Portugal

External links

• Portuguese Electoral Commission

Notes and References

1. Sum of PSD, CDS, PPM, AD and UD votes.
2. Sum of PSD, AD, CDS and PPM elected mayors.
3. Sum of PSD, CDS, PPM, AD and UD elected councillors.
4. Sum of PS and PS/UEDS votes.
5. Sum of PS and PS/UEDS elected mayors.
6. Sum of PS and PS/UEDS elected councillors.
7. https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/politica/demissao-pinto-balsemao_a853792 "Demissão Pinto Balsemão"
8. Web site: Instituto Nacional de Estatística (Recenseamentos Gerais da População). www.ine.pt. . pt . 17 July 2021.